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Miscellaneous canned Jlsh products. — In addition to the products 

 shown in the foregoing, 298,644 standard cases of forty-eight 1 -pound 

 cans of various miscellaneous fishery products, valued at $2,334,776, 

 were canned during 1927. Alewives and alewife roe were canned at 

 41 plants, shad and shad roe at 32 plants, crabs at 4 plants, miscel- 

 laneous shellfish at 5 plants, and miscellaneous fish, caviar, roe, and 

 salmon eggs at 34 plants. Compared with a year ago, the pack of 

 alewives and alewife roe, which amounted to 66,495 cases valued at 

 $316,697, increased 24 per cent in quantity and 19 per cent in value; 

 the pack of shad and shad roe, which amounted to 12,336 cases 

 valued at $83,732, decreased 20 per cent in quantity and 19 per cent 

 in value; the value of the crab pack amounted to $26,988 and 

 increased 7 per cent. 



Pack of miscellaneous canned fishery products in the United States and Alaska, 1927 



1 All packs under this heading have been converted to the equivalent of "standard cases" of forty-eight 

 1-pound cans. 



Pack of canned alewives and alewife roe, 1921 to 1927 



-Cases have been converted to the equivalent of forty-eight 1-pound cans. 

 Pack of canned shad and shad roe, 1921 to 1927 



Note. — Cases have been reduced to the equivalent of forty-eight 1-pound cans. 



